Labour to discuss leak on Friday

The Labour Party's national executive is expected to meet on Friday to discuss the leakage of "sensitive" information to the Nationalist Party media over the past weeks, sources told The Times.

MLP general secretary Jason Micallef would not comment when contacted, saying that, as a matter of policy, he does not speak about internal party affairs in public.

However, party sources said the leak and the identity of the "mole" were expected to be raised at Friday's meeting.

The Maltese weekly Illum reported on November 12 that Labour leader Alfred Sant had said during an internal party meeting he knew the identity of the "snake" - a term reportedly coined by a delegate during that same meeting in reference to the mole.

According to the report, the Nationalist Party media had been informed about a meeting between a number of top party officials and four contractors on November 7. The contractors, the PN said, had been in Dubai at the same time an MLP delegation was visiting the Gulf country.